Winter Twilight Near Albany

1858

Oil on linen

Overall: 16 1/8 x 24 1/4 x 7/8 in. ( 41 x 61.6 x 2.2 cm )
Framed: 29 1/4 × 37 1/2 × 4 1/2 in. (74.3 × 95.3 × 11.4 cm)

The Robert L. Stuart Collection, the gift of his widow Mrs. Mary Stuart

S-234

Winter Twilight was the first of Boughton's paintings to gain widespread critical notice. Shown at the National Academy of Design in 1858, it was described by one critic as "a perfect piece of winter." The painting was largely a plein-air endeavor. As Boughton recalled, "It was the depth of winter and it struck me that I had never seen a winter landscape painted just as I saw it. I went into a field and worked until I was so cold that I was on the point of giving up."

DescriptionLandscape depicting winter in Albany; barren trees and snow on the ground; in foreground, child pulls a sleigh across a frozen lake.

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